by Peter Di Lorenzi
I have launched The Wine Tribune on behalf of a specific audience: ordinary, non-affluent wine drinkers who can rarely afford to spend more than — and, more frequently, as much as — the cost of an affordable, home-cooked meal on a bottle of wine....Ordinary, non-affluent people who drink modestly-priced wines are largely ignored by ‘important’, established wine journalists, scorers, critics, and educators, but they are not unimportant; and they are certainly not a minority. They constitute, in fact, the great majority of wine consumers, and they buy from 80% to 90% or more — depending on the selected price cutoff point — of wine sold in the U.S. And many of them, despite their non-affluence, are people who love wine and/or who appreciate its ability to enrich their meals, lives, and families.
